Podesta Under Federal Investigation, Officials Confirm

Investigation by prosecutors for the U.S. Attorney’s Office

Investigation by prosecutors for the U.S. Attorney’s Office into Podesta

Former lobbyist Tony Podesta is now under official federal investigation by prosecutors for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York according to reports.

Podesta, along with Mercury Public Affairs partner and former Minnesota Republican Rep. Vin Weber and former Obama White House Counsel Greg Craig, are under investigation following a referral from the Special Counsel’s Office.

The probe is allegedly looking into whether lobbyists and operatives failed to register their work as foreign agents.

Weber's firm, Mercury Public Affairs, has also been under investigation for possibly failing to file Foreign Agents Registration Act reports for their work with the ECMU and on behalf of Ukraine, NBC News has previously reported.

Separately, Craig, the former Obama White House Counsel, is under investigation as well, the sources said.

Craig left his prior job at the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, after he and the firm became caught up in Mueller's investigation.

Alex van der Zwaan, who had been a lawyer in Skadden's London office, pleaded guilty to lying to prosecutors and the FBI about communications involving work the firm had been performing for the Russian-backed former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, whose party was paying Manafort and Manafort’s former business partner, Rick Gates.

Craig was the senior partner overseeing a report produced by Skadden Arps about the prosecution of Yulia Tymoshenko, a Yanukovych political rival.